After a long moment, Tommy realizes what Galwynn is talking about, and he too blushes furiously. "Tarag," he says, turning to the smith, "You know metal and stonework. Tell me, have you ever seen anything like this tower?" He gestures at the arched doorway, which is of smoothly shaped dark stone supported by bands of closely fitting metal. "It looks as if the stone were poured into a mould rather than cut or polished. Many of the buildings at the Academy of the Chromatic Order are made with stone shaping spells, but I've never seen this level of detail. Can you believe Keldar thought this tower was from the Early Maniac period? Ha! We haven't seen a single severed body part yet, let alone any everburning corpses. Now, the tower of Tovug the Troublesome, there was a fine example of Early Maniac. According to Vestartius, Tovug's everburning corpses were actually everburning caged zombies that would attempt to devour visitors if they got too close to the, ah, light fixtures. Not that Tovug had many visitors, of course, at least not voluntary ones. And of course Tovug is best known for having the first known morphospatial labyrinth in his dungeons, which foreshadowed the popularity of demiplanar shunts in the High Maniac period."
